Suicide Girls recently spoke to director Justin Lin for the release of "Annapolis" and discussed his plans on directing the remake of Park Chan Wook's "Oldboy".
Lin says "Right now we're so far away from it being a reality. I love that film and the only reason I wanted to explore that avenue is because it really spoke to me. I didn't sign on to make a Xerox copy of the original because it's a masterpiece. I wanted to explore other themes within it. If I was going to come close to making a Xerox I hope I have enough sense to stop that process. Oldboy is one of those projects where structurally it's so solid and it brings up so many great themes that you could give it to ten different filmmakers and it would be interesting to see what comes out of each of them".
He continued, "So far Universal has been very open to anything. I told them that I'm not signing on unless we're not going to water down the ending. It has always been important to make sure that it's understood up front what we're trying to accomplish. We don't have formal attachments. It's a great movie and any actor in their right mind would want to be a part of it. I know he [Nicolas Cage] said publicly he'd be interested in it. I just don't think we're at that stage yet so hopefully after I wrap this movie I'll have a little bit more time to play around and see what comes up".
For the full interview, click here.
